LibGuides: Blended Learning: Blended Learning Tools

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Top 200 Tools for Learning 2019

Check out this yearly list of the best 200 tools for online learning.

Developing Student Research Skills with Games

Think Fast
A rapid-fire, multiple choice question/answer game.
Bubbl.us
A tool for brainstorming which could be used for concept mapping.

Puzzles/Games/Activities

Half-Baked Software Hot Potatoes
Freeware (not open source) for tests and assessments. Also offers Quandary (open source) for creating web-based action mazes -a kind of interactive case-study.
Respondus
This is a test and assessment creation and management tool that is generally part of Web CT/Blackboard Learning Management System. Also available is Respondus StudyMate, a stand alone tool.
Study Mate
Game like activities (puzzles etc.)
Webducate Dragster
A rapid authoring tool to create drag and drop activities using multimedia. Works with Articulate and Wimba. Also offers Accessible Multimedia Player (AMP) and Pollster.

Games and Quizzes

Kahoots

Faculty can create quizzes and play them in class with students
Students require electronic device (computer, laptop, phone)
Limited free account for faculty
Students are not required to create an account.

Mentimeter

Faculty can create quizzes and polls and play them in class with students
Students require electronic device (computer, laptop or phone)
A limited free account for faculty
Students do not required to create an account.

Jeopardy Labs

Create a Jeopardy-like quiz game to test student comprehension.
Students play as a team, no computer, laptop or phone required
Free for faculty and students, faculty are required to create an account.

H5P Make your own Game

Create Quiz, Memory, Drag and Drop Games directly on H5P website
Embed link into course
Free but faculty sign up required

Interactive Digital Tools

Presentation and Live Quiz

Nearpod

Create a live presentation with quiz and poll functions
Students interact with presentation and quiz
Students require electronic device (computer, phone etc)
Free limited account for faculty
No account needed for students

Sharing Platforms:

Padlet

Free Individual Accounts for Faculty
Can share board with class to post ideas or examples
Students are not required to create an account

Digital Storytelling

Twine

Create interactive choose our own adventure stories
No coding required, output is in HTML
Requires download

*Other examples like Twine

Classroom Response (Discussion) Tools

Poll everywhere

Online service for classroom response systems.
Students require electronic device (computer, laptop or phone)
Basic (up to 40 students) is free, Pricing available for larger classrooms

Mentimeter

Faculty can create quizzes and polls and play them in class with students
Students require electronic device (computer, laptop or phone)
A limited free account for faculty
Students do not required to create an account.

Tophat

Online service for student response, quizzes, attendance and more.
Students require electronic device (computer, laptop or phone)
Pricing available per term or annual

Formative

Free online response system, classwork and homework
Students require electronic device (computer, laptop or phone)
Free for faculty and students, requires registration for faculty and students

Flipgrid

Video response platform for discussions. Students respond to prompts and each other with short videos
Can be embedded into Brightspace (Moodle)
One Discussion board is free, pricing available for unlimited discussion boards. Requires registration for faculty and students

Tools

Quizzing and Survey Tools

For additional resources for assessment see: http://uiuc.libguides.com/aecontent.php?pid=64638&sid=2925751

Web Services Toolbox: The Toolbox is a free suite of online tools designed to help University of Illinois faculty, staff, and students accomplish their web and communication responsibilities quickly and easily. NetID required for login. Includes Surveys, Calendars, Forms, eNewsletters, and more. Campus support and workshops are available.https://illinois.edu/toolbox/

Articulate Quizmaker
Aunwesha LearnITy Assessor
Based in India, is a test creation tool, part of a suite of tools including LMS.
Doodle Poll
This is an open source tool to help with scheduling meetings, taking polls etc. Links to the poll can be forwarded to individuals and results displayed. Free, no registration required.
Hot Potatoes
The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Available free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.
Crowd Signal
Free Trial
Qarbon ViewletBuilder
Software to create demos, simulations, live recordings, quizzes, surveys ,and highly interactive Flash content. Also available is Viewlet Quiz to create Flash surveys and quizzes.
Questionmark Perception
offers a state of the art assessment software and also has an iPhone/iPad app.
Respondus
Included with Web CT. It is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard, WebCT, eCollege, ANGEL and other eLearning systems.
Study Mate (Respondus)
Can create ten Flash-based activities and games using four simple templates. The Flash activities can be used with any web server or published directly to a Blackboard, WebCT, or ANGEL course. StudyMate Author will import items from MS Word files and publisher test banks, making it easy to create interesting, interactive activities from existing content. Best of all, you don't have to know Flash programming or HTML to use StudyMate Author. Free download available for UIUC faculty from the Cites Webstore[ http://webstore.illinois.edu/]
Survey Monkey
Free limited version. Select from over a dozen types of questions (multiple choice, rating scales, drop-down menus, and more...). Options allow you to require answers to any question, control the flow with custom skip logic, and even randomize answer choices to eliminate bias.
Tanida Quiz Builder
creates quizzes in Flash
Wondershare Quiz Creator
For creating quizzes and surveys.
Zoomerang
Free limited version.

Google Apps

Google Docs

Share a Doc with your class to elicit responses in real time

Google Hangouts

Create a video discussion for small groups of 25, includes screen sharing
Free to all Faculty and students at Ryerson

Team Communication (Project Management)

SLACK

Team communication, including channels, great for project management
Free version for students, requires registration

Trello

Assign tasks, perfect workflow, includes project visualization
Free for students, requires registration

Annotate Websites and PDFs

Diigo

Annotate Webpages and online PDF's, Save and tag your online resources, Shareable
Free, online registration

Hypothesis

Annotate webpages - discuss, collaborate, organize your research, or take personal notes.
Free, online registration

Video Production

Make your Own Videos

Guides to Video Production from Seneca College Libraries.

Creating Educational Videos

How to Find Free Images

Video Production Software

H5P

Create interactive videos and presentations
Use H5P interface to create or embed into Moodle, Drupal etc.,
Requires sign up.

Tech Smith Products

Camtasia (Video Editor)
Snag It (Screen Capture)
Free trials available, Pricing varies by product

Screencast-0-Matic

Online screen recorder for Windows and Mac
Free, but limited functions

Educational Videos

YouTube

YouTube has exciting and engaging videos that you can show in class or link to in your course shell.

For copyright purposes, please check that the video has been posted by the legal copyright holder.

Downloading or copying a YouTube video: You can only download or copy a YouTube video if you are the owner of the content. The best way to make YouTube material available to your students is through linking.

Other Educational Video Channels

Ted Talks

Short powerful talks under 18 minutes

Ted-Ed

Build a lesson around a TedX talk
Ted Education Short Videos

Free Courses and Pre-Learning

Pre Learning / Quick Review Tutorials

You can provide the following tools to help your students refresh their prior knowledge or to quickly learn a new subject area.

Kahn Academy
- Math
- Science & Engineering
- Computing
- Some Arts and Humanities

Open University:
- Based in the UK, this organization offers free short courses
- All Subject Areas

Open Learning Initiative:
- Science
- Engineering
- Math
- English as a Second Language
- A grant-run group at Carnegie Mellon that offers free online courses to students as well as course materials to instructors at any institution.

MIT Open Courseware:
- Web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content free to the public.

Open Yale Courses:
- Web-based publication of lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses free to the public.
- History
- English
- Philosophy
- Arts and Humaities
- Some Science

Duolingo
- Free language learning program, uses tiny micro-lessons to master language proficiency

Blended Learning

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